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How to Personalize Learning
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How to Personalize Learning
A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper

Foreword by Luis Perez

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October 2016 | 208 pages | Corwin

HOW to Personalize Learning

This practical follow-up to Bray and McClaskey’s first book, Make Learning Personal: The What, Who, Wow, Where, and Whybrings theory to practice. Teachers will find the tools, skills, and strategies needed to personalize learning and develop self-directed, independent learners with agency.

Discover how to get started and go deeper by building a shared vision that supports personalized learning using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Also included are:

  • Tools and templates such as the Learner Profile, Personal Learning Backpack, Personal Learning Plan, as well as tips for lesson design and PBL
  • Lesson and project examples that show how teachers can change instructional practice by encouraging learner voice and choice
  • QR codes and links to the authors’ website for electronic versions of tools, templates, activities, and checklists

Create a powerful shift in education by building a culture of learning so every learner is valued. 

"If you are looking for a step-by-step guide on what personalized learning is and how to implement it, while being inspired and gaining ideas to implement immediately, this is definitely the book to read!"
Diana Petschauer, Assistive Technology Professional, CEO
AT for Education & Access4Employment, Wolfeboro Falls, NH

“Barbara and Kathleen present well-tested strategies for personalization within a coherent framework. This highly practical book forms a reliable foundation for empowering a community striving to make schools work for all learners.”
John H. Clarke, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont


Looking for extra resources? Check out the Personalize Learning website for more content!
 
Foreword
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Introduction
 
1. Build a Common Language
Define Personalized Learning

 
Shared Vision

 
Shared Beliefs

 
 
2. How Learners Learn Best
UDL Principles and Guidelines

 
Access, Engage, and Express

 
Develop the Expert Learner

 
 
3. Develop Learner Agency
Voice

 
Choice

 
Engagement

 
Motivation

 
Ownership

 
Purpose

 
Self-Efficacy

 
 
4. Discover the Learner in Every Child
Who I Am as a Learner

 
Learner Profile (LP)

 
Personal Learning Backpack (PLB)

 
Personal Learning Plan (PLP)

 
 
5. Personalize Learning for a Whole Class
Class Learning Snapshot (CLS)

 
Class Learning Toolkit (CLT)

 
 
6. Lesson Design With All Learners in Mind
Four-Step UDL Lesson Review Process

 
UDL Solutions and Strategies

 
Lesson Design

 
 
7. Delve Into Deeper Learning
Project-Based Learning

 
Key Understandings and Learning Standards

 
Driving Questions

 
Meaningful and Relevant Focus

 
Assessment AS Learning

 
Reflection Makes Learning Visible

 
 
8. Learner Agency Across the Stages
Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) and Learner Agency

 
Crosswalk of Learner Agency Across the Stages of PLE

 
 
9. Create a Culture of Learning
Nurture a Positive School Culture

 
Build a Culture of Learning

 
Redesign the Learning Environment

 
Connect the Dots

 
Create a Rationale to Personalize Learning

 
 
Glossary
 
References
 
Index

Supplements

"For educators and learning communities that are ready to dive deep into transforming their learning expectations and environments, this book is an essential resource. The combination of field experiences and models, vetted resources to make learning active, rather than passive and the structures provided to support personalizing learning in any learning experience, makes the resource so important. Educators can rely on the information from these rock-stars of personalized learning, knowing that it is as current as it can be, provides contacts and resources to follow-up with and moves the theory of personalizing learning into practice."

Caroline Patrie, Innovation Coach
Addison North East SU, Bristol, VT

"How to Personalize Learning is a valuable guide for educators at all levels of knowledge around personalizing learning, PBL, and UDL. A new teacher can use it like a how-to manual to go step-by-step through the book, promoting learner voice and choice while developing engaging lessons and projects. These steps help teachers create activities in their lessons or projects that focus on both empowering learners in their learning, and strategies that focus on the end-goal of what needs to be accomplished. Most teachers can pull key components and activities out and use this book to enrich what they are already doing to meaningfully engage learners. Seasoned, 'master' teachers will benefit from the usable tables and 'Conversation Starters' which can act as cues to remind every teacher that they are learners first, that best practice is still practice, and that our practice can always be improved."

David Truss, Lead Administrator and Vice Principal
Inquiry Hub Secondary School & Coquitlam Open Learning
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Barbara Ann Bray

Barbara Bray is a writer, speaker, instructional designer and creative learning strategist who enjoys connecting people and ideas around transforming education. She has focused on creating learner-centered environments for over 25 years and coined the term “Making Learning Personal” in 2000 because she believed that education really needed to be all about our learners and learning first. Not only is Barbara focusing on personalizing learning, she posts on Rethinking Learning (barbarabray.net) and is the Founder/Owner of My eCoach (my-ecoach.com) My eCoach is based on a coaching platform for teachers because they are learners too and need... More About Author

Kathleen Ann McClaskey

Kathleen McClaskey has been on mission the last three decades to level the playing field for all learners and to assist educators in discovering the learner in every child.  In her career, she has been a middle school teacher, K-12 administrator, professional developer, innovative leader, author, and futurist who believes that everyone on the planet is a learner. As an educational technologist for over 33 years, graduate instructor in MA and NH and an Universal Design for Learning consultant, she has worked worldwide in training thousands of teachers in using tools to instruct all learners in the classroom. She most recently had... More About Author

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